Aug 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel Rose WRITTEN BY: Jerome Tew “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.” – William T. Sherman The Ohio State Journal reported General Sherman’s “War is Hell” speech on August 12, 1880. By that...
Jun 3, 2019 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter On October 28, 1861, Solomon Luther Stroup volunteered to serve in the Confederate Army in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. He was 24 years old at the time and volunteered for...
May 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Yvonne Spell Williams; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Mixture of Both Our Family’s Oral Traditions and Documented Information I was born and raised in Sampson County, North Carolina. We lived in Cumberland until we moved to Utah to be...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose; Written by Stephen Lee; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (Photograph above by Joel Rose of the Bullard farm house, located on Carry Bridge Road in the Hayne community of Sampson County, NC.) Generations of descendants of Thomas Bullard...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Written By E.M. Bullard (1880-1959)Early in March of 1865 one division of Sherman’s Army, composed largely of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio troops, broke camp at Blockersville (now Stedman) and began their march through Sampson County. A troop...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Penny Alderman was a young farm wife in antebellum North Carolina. Her husband, Reverend Amariah B. Alderman, was a Baptist minister who served many churches from the south end of Sampson county. Written in 1854, her diary records Penny’s...
